All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 10 2009 // Police in Barre, Vermont are trying to solve a string of 22 arson fires that go back to October, including three on Thursday.Police released a surveillance video of what appears to be a suspect setting a fire in a trash...
Mar 6 2009 // A former Camden City, New Jersey police officer has been sentenced for insurance fraud for falsely claiming that vans used by his patient transportation business were only being driven for personal use, according to state...
Mar 5 2009 // The police chief in North Charleston, South Carolina says a new camera system that can check license plates in an instant is so good at finding stolen cars and tags, he wants to set up a camera in high crime areas.Chief...
Feb 19 2009 // Reno, Nev., police say efforts to target busy intersections for traffic and safety enforcement is paying off with few serious crashes.Police Lt. David Evans says in 2008, statistics show fatal accidents declined 35...
Feb 18 2009 // Police say a Long Island man whose car was outfitted with an anti-drunken-driving device rented another car and crashed it while intoxicated.Police say 27-year-old Marvin Rice, Junior, of Shirley, lost control of a rental...
Feb 10 2009 // Australian police treated the country’s entire bushfire disaster zone as a crime scene on Tuesday as investigators combed through a blackened wasteland to find clues to the culprits behind the country’s...
Feb 8 2009 // Local governments increased their commitment to risk management over the past decade, as they met the challenges posed by several major natural disaster and terrorism events. Better local government loss prevention, crisis...
Feb 6 2009 // More cash-strapped states want to give law enforcement officers the authority to pull over motorists who aren’t wearing seat belts.The 15 states, including Ohio, that are considering making the switch need to do so...
Feb 2 2009 // A sharply divided Florida Supreme Court says law enforcement agencies can be sued over “safety checks” that go bad. The justices ruled 4-3 in the case of an elderly woman who later died after Marion County...
Feb 2 2009 // The lead sponsor of legislation that would allow officers in Arkansas to pull over drivers for not wearing seat belts says he’ll also call on police agencies to collect data on the race of motorists they stop for the...
Jan 27 2009 // The latest in a string of suspicious fires in this suburban Philadelphia city tore through a block of row houses, heavily damaging 15 homes, displacing dozens of people and prompting local officials to declare a state of...
Jan 25 2009 // In communities across America, several factors have combined to create a “perfect storm” of property risk. Growing numbers of foreclosures are leaving scores of residential and commercial properties vacant, and...
Jan 25 2009 // Brooklyn, N.Y. — Thieves who broke the locks on an unoccupied apartment building stripped the entire building of its copper piping, valued at more than $30,000.Las Vegas — The entire electrical system,...
Jan 20 2009 // Police in Tulsa, Okla., say that a 30 percent drop in auto thefts last year is largely due to officers targeting thieves who snatch cars to make quick cash from scrap metal.Roughly 2,500 vehicles were reported stolen in...
Jan 20 2009 // The Phoenix police and fire departments won’t be spared the budget ax as the city pares down its spending to offset a projected $270 million budget deficit.The budget cuts aimed at the departments are expected to...
Jan 15 2009 // Increased enforcement on the state’s roadways by Louisiana State Police troopers has led to a decrease in the number of fatal crashes, injury crashes, and even minor property damage crashes, the LSP says.State Police...
Jan 12 2009 // The nation experienced a 3.5 percent decline in violent crime and a 2.5 percent decline in property crime for the first six months of 2008, according to the federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).Violent crime was down in...
Dec 31 2008 // The Port Gibson, Mississippi Police Department was open Monday, three days after a payment lapse on an insurance policy forced its closure.Mayor Fred Reeves said the workers’ compensation insurance policy for Port...
Dec 30 2008 // A computer program is helping western Kentucky police track down stolen property that’s been sold to pawn shops.Paducah’s five pawn shops submit records of transactions, including serial numbers of items bought...
Dec 8 2008 // The city of West Haven, Connecticut has agreed to pay nearly $400,000 to the family of a man who was killed on Interstate 95 while running from police.The family of 18-year-old Gary “Chris” Tyson had accused...